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Cash Flow Worries Limit SMB Hiring

Some of the world’s largest conglomerates are raising concerns about an impending economic recession in the U.S., supply chain disruptions stemming from...

Facebook Recruits Blockchain Program Manager

Facebook is reportedly seeking “to hire a finance program manager in blockchain,” according to a new job posting. The move comes amid the...

Small Business Optimism Rises To Historic Highs

New data showed that small business optimism rose 1.5 points to 105 in May, surpassing pre-shutdown levels. According to the National Federation...

Mastercard Names New President Of Canadian Operations

Mastercard announced on Thursday (May 30) the appointment of Sasha Krstic as president of the company’s Canadian operations. In a press release,...

Walmart Nabs Ex-Google Exec As CTO, CDO

Walmart has hired Suresh Kumar as its new chief technology officer and chief development officer, according to a report. Kumar will report...

CFPB Announces New Hires

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced additions to its senior leadership and executive teams via an emailed press release. One...

SMBs Struggle To Cope With New Trade Tariffs

Small businesses have sent out a warning to the Trump administration over new tariffs being levied on Chinese goods. The White House...

Hiring Pains, Revenue Optimism Hit Small Business Week

In honor of Small Business (SMB) Week, which kicks off in the U.S. on Monday (May 6), banks and financial service providers...

The Amazon/Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Glimpsing The Future Of Automation And One-Day Delivery

This week both Amazon and Walmart were offering up pictures — albeit with very different levels of detail built in — of how the...

Plaid Is Looking To Hire In Europe

Plaid, the FinTech platform provider that recently raised $250 million in venture funding, is gearing up to expand into Europe. According to...

Amazon’s New Arlington HQ Looks To Hire 400 This Year

Amazon has announced that it’s looking to fill jobs for its new headquarters in Arlington, Va., and to help build up the...

Postmates To Hire More Engineers As It Expands In The Seattle Area

Postmates, the delivery startup that competes against Grubhub, among others, and is expected to launch an initial public offering (IPO), is reportedly...

Hiring Boom Sees 196K New Jobs In US

Following a slowdown in February, hiring in the United States rebounded in March, when non-farm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 196,000...

Ex-GM EVP Finds A New Home At Amazon

Amazon has hired General Motors‘ (GMs’) executive vice president of global manufacturing. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported...

Dampening Earnings Outlook Signals US Corporate Recession?

A recession is generally defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. You may be, of course, familiar with the idea of an...

Bitcoin Daily: Ripple Mulls XRP Recruiting Bonuses; Facebook Hires Talent From Blockchain Startups

Ripple reportedly offered bonuses via its digital currency during its recruiting process, according to CoinDesk. One unnamed source was said to have...

Facebook Buys Chainspace Team For Blockchain Push

Facebook is making a big push into blockchain technology with some new hires, according to reports. The company recently hired four people...

Neiman Marcus Names Two Execs As It Builds Luxury Platform

Neiman Marcus Group announced Tuesday (Feb. 5) the appointment of two executives to lead its customer and store strategies. In a press release,...

SMBs Reign In Spending, Hiring

Coming off a strong 2018, small business owners are becoming more conservative in terms of how many investments they make and how...

Report: Corporate AI Usage Balloons 270 Pct In Four-Year Span

A new report has revealed that the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in companies grew 270 percent in the past four years....

Banco Santander Pulls Plug On New CEO

Banco Santander announced this week that plans to hire a new chief executive officer have been cancelled. The financial institution issued a...

Amazon HQ2 Posts First Jobs

Amazon posted two job openings mentioning its HQ2 office in New York City. Both positions — posted within the last few days — are for...

Why Last-Mile Logistics Needs Last-Mile Authentication

For consumers, working with various institutions — such as banks, government agencies and medical systems — often means remembering just as many account passwords for...

Visa Taps Square’s Mary Kay Bowman To Lead Seller Solutions

To head up Visa’s strategy for acceptance products and solutions, Mary Kay Bowman is coming to the firm as its new head...

Small Businesses At The Center Of Bots Vs Accountants

Behind many shifting trends in small business (SMB) financial services — the rise of FinTech service providers, the emergence of artificial intelligence...

SMBs Cautious In Volatile US Economy

An unstable stock market has led many small businesses (SMBs) to cut costs and change their hiring plans for the New Year....

Square Talks Temp Payroll

The holiday season always brings with it a major crush of hiring for temporary employees — and the year 2018 was widely...

Facebook Eyes Engineers, Researchers For Blockchain Team

Social media giant Facebook is looking to grow its blockchain team, according to a report. The company posted on its careers page...

Talent Crunch Intensifies For Small Businesses, Bank Of America Finds

The year 2018 was a record year for small business (SMB) optimism in the U.S., driven by economic strength, government policy and continued...

Airbnb Hires Veteran Amazon Executive As CFO

Airbnb, preparing for an expected initial public offering next year, announced Monday (Nov. 26) that Amazon executive Dave Stephenson is coming onboard...

Bitcoin Daily: Brussel’s NXMH Acquires Bitstamp Exchange; Ripple Hires Ex-Google Product Specialist

MediXserve is working with the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines in an effort to make the first blockchain research and...

The Retail Holiday Hiring Headache

By some accounts, the 2018 holiday season is going to be a bang-up year for retailers. Unemployment is down and consumer confidence...

CBIZ Reports Fall In SMB Hiring For September

New data from CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI) reported a month-over-month decrease in hiring of 2.45 percent in September, which follows...

How US Retailers Are Attracting Seasonal Workers Ahead Of The Holidays

Retailers are looking for hundreds of thousands of retail workers ahead of what is expected to be a busy holiday season: Target,...

Retail Pulse: Rent The Runway Opens San Francisco Store; Crate & Barrel Plans Restaurant

To break into the brick-and-mortar world, some digitally native retailers have opened shops inside department stores. However, they are also turning to...

ADP Stats Show Unemployment Squeezing Entrepreneurs

U.S. businesses are optimistic, but that doesn’t mean entrepreneurs aren’t facing increasingly challenging hurdles. The latest data from ADP and other analysts...

New Netflix Hire Signals Contextual Commerce Focus

Imagine this: You are watching a movie or TV show at home —it’s been a long week and you are vegging out,...

JPMorgan Poaches Google Exec For AI Innovation

JPMorgan Chase has hired a senior executive from Google as its new head of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning services. According...

Streamlining Hiring With Gig Workers In Mind

A tight labor market, difficult job application processes and greater shifts in professional values are all contributing to greater appeal of the...

IT Teams Struggle To Make Right Tech Hires

Automation, bots, blockchain — the deluge of technologies flooding the enterprise today can be overwhelming. This week’s B2B Data Digest takes the...

Economists Upbeat On Jobs, Wages — But Not Because Of Tax Reform

A new survey from the National Association for Business Economists suggests economists are optimistic about U.S. wages and employment, though not yet...

Dunkin’ Brands Appoints New CEO

Taking over from a chief executive who spent almost 10 years at the helm of Dunkin’ Brands, David Hoffmann now has the...

Ripple Brings On Facebook’s Kahina Van Dyke To Ink Partnerships

Ripple, the blockchain company, announced on Wednesday (July 11) that it has tapped Kahina Van Dyke to join the company’s leadership team...

Amid Economic Vigor, Small Firms Struggle To Find Talent

The latest jobs report by the U.S. Department of Labor signaled a healthy employment environment for June as 213,000 positions were added...

For Some Banks, FinTech Spawns Staffing Spree, Others Cut Jobs

Barclays US Taps Ex-Capital One Exec To Lead Cards And Payments Business

Barclays announced that it has appointed Shane Holdaway as the company’s CEO of its cards and payments division in the U.S. Holdaway,...

Lowe’s, PetSmart And Others Take On New Leadership

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. That doesn’t fly in today’s...

Wells Fargo Head Of Innovation Group To Retire

Wells Fargo announced on Tuesday (May 22) that Steve Ellis, head of the innovation group, will retire after nearly 31 years with the...

You Could Do Worse Than Quit A Warehouse Job At Amazon

Amazon puts significant effort toward loyalty, as shown recently by its push to extend Prime discounts to Whole Foods shoppers, a move...

Small Business Earnings, Optimism Hit Yet Another High

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), a small business lobbying group, released a report last week revealing historic highs for small...